One of the things that surprised me after becoming a mother was that I thought that all of the pain and longing that I experienced during our wait and during our struggle with infertility would vanish...
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As it typically happens during a learning conference, a theme emerged for me the past two days at the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit. And for me, as it almost always is, that theme was children...
read more..Two years ago, when we were still trying to get pregnant, I had to run into a Walgreen’s on my lunch break to buy a box of ovulation predictor kits. (Which can we talk about how criminally expen...
read more..It is very strange when your life switches from childless to parenthood with the ring of a phone. How do you navigate now that you’re a mother and no longer any of the other labels you’d a...
read more..The timeline to Harry … [Part I] Friday, Nov. 19 1:45 pm Central: I get a call from an agency in Utah telling me about a possible situation. Baby born that morning; mom is Native American. 7 lbs...
read more..It’s a quiet Christmas Eve morning. There is fresh snow outside, my baby is asleep in the wrap, my husband is safe upstairs, on vacation from work for a whole week. The dogs are fed, which means...
read more..This is a bit backward, because of how quickly we were matched with Harry, but we’ve been awarded a matching grant from Hand in Hand Christian Adoption. They will match, dollar for dollar, all d...
read more..This morning when I got to work, my supervisor asked me if I’d seen the video that the Today Show posted today — the continuous one-shot video where the entire staff is lip syncing The Bla...
read more..The term “home study,” I have learned, is kind of a misnomer. I used to think it was really just a social worker coming to your house and giving you either a thumbs up or down. But it̵...
read more..Today was our in-office visit at the agency as part of our home study process. We sat on a couch in a social worker’s office and talked for almost three hours. We covered everything from our q...
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